Which of the following would shift the reading frame in mRNA?  substitution of a purine-pyrimidine pair by a pyrimidine-purine base? Introduction of a silent mutation insertion of a new base pair in the DNA  deamination of cytosine to uracil

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Chapter13: Gene Expression
Section13.4: Translation
Problem 3C: A certain mRNA strand has the following nucleotide sequence: 5AUGACGUAUAACUUU3 What is the anticodon...
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Which of the following would shift the reading frame in mRNA? 

substitution of a purine-pyrimidine pair by a pyrimidine-purine base?

Introduction of a silent mutation

insertion of a new base pair in the DNA 

deamination of cytosine to uracil 

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